The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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One and God make a majority.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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